“A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.”
Topic
business
962 quotes
Quotes, most loved first
“I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.”
“I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.”
“If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?”
“I find the business world hard.”
“As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.”
“I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.”
“Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.”
“Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.”
“Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.”
“If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.”
“All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.”
“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.”
“Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.”
“We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.”
“I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.”
“I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.”
“It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.”
“I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.”
“Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.”
“There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.”
“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
“Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.”
“To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.”